Posts by villabolo

now that the gospel has been "preached in all the world" and people have had every opportunity to "repent" and come under the subjection of the great god...time's up.

villabolo

I was just rereading wikipedia. The issue also gets a little more complicated with pre and post millenialism affecting the theology but you hit it dead on with imagining WT rule on a national scale.

A good, fictional example is Margaret Atwood's The Handmaids Tale also out on video.

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...And Then The End Shall Come

by cameo-d in

what "end" is this?.

end of the world....or end of non-believers???.

now that the gospel has been "preached in all the world" and people have had every opportunity to "repent" and come under the subjection of the great god...time's up.

villabolo

Cameo-d, are you familiar with Dominionism?

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How did this all come about then?

by LouBelle in

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i have an interest in the universe and am constantly reading up on it or watching programs related to it.

last night saw a program that spoke of how the earth was possibly/more than likely created: a star went supernova, and dust particles (unlike lint from the washing) started sticking together, first small dust particles, then bigger, forming rocks and so on and so forth.

over billions of years we have a planet - nothing like what we see now though.. over a few more billions years an outter crust is formed, though there are volcanos, which continually spew horrid gases into the year.. where did the water come from - consider we have 2 types of water: h2o and the denser hdo.

villabolo

Lou Belle, Carl Sagan's Cosmos series was pretty good on that subject. Unfortunately we don't have enough brain and or knowledge yet to understand the deeper mysteries of the Universe. One day perhaps. The following is a poem dedicated to my pantheism, a creation myth if you will:

Once upon a time

Before all time

The Universe gave birth to herself

And she was born dancing

Leaping, spinning, twirling,

dancing

Within Her dance a trillion bonfires

Within them swirl billions of sparks

Round each spark whirls a cloud of dust

Lumping, growing, crashing, turning

Into spinning pebbles

Came these two pebbles atumbling together

And soon upon one a mighty brew

Began to stew

A thousand and one ingredients mixing

Joining, splitting, floating, dancing

Living

In Life's beginning was the Gene

And the Gene was alive

The Gene is Life itself

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Who here has just let the JW stuff go?. I NEED HELP GUYS!!!!!!!.................

by oompa in

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....i am so frikkin obsessed about the jw lies and my newfound truths about them, and it is prob driving me crazy or causing depression.....if i wake up in the middle of the night, i never get back to sleep as my mind starts racing about jw crap and how it affects my marriage, and then how can i make this marriage work with her such a hardcore dub....i told my wife i now realize i am an abusive husband.....i must stop talking to her about the real truth!!

!..........it is killing her inside and we have had soooo many bad discussions that turn into arguments......on top of that she says she is now closer to jah and the org than at any other time in her life, that now that she has no positive direction from me, she relies totally on jehovah and prays to him more than ever..... we talked about separation, and that i was going to lose her over our religious differences........i feel so sorry for what i have put her through, and i know that if i can not really shut up with my ohsohelpful comments of truths about this truth she will leave me due to "spiritual endangerment".......and she said she is damm close to that happening.....i told her i knew it to and would so hate to lose her due to our religious differences.

at my recent shepherding call, they said to try and stop focusing on the negatives i have found in jw, and focus on the good things...and that is not a bad idea even if i never go back to meetings....there are good things about dubs....the efforts at ending racism and at least for me, some really good lifelong friends.......even their hope for the future was pretty good to me, even though it is a bunch of crap and i no longer believe the bible is gods word or inspired.....it does have some good suggestions for a happy life and ideas as to how to treat others........but so do just about every holy book of other faiths........ i had plans to start going to some meetings with my wife, but today, after a sleepless night i told her i just dont think i can do it, and just as she strongly believes it is the truth, i do not, and that i think the guys on the gb are not led by holy spirit cause if she will read the proclaimers book, she will see we have never gotten a single bible inerpretation of prophecy correct.......so she says "so what is there?

villabolo

Oompa I agree with lola28. However marriage counselers with no knowledge of the JWs may be to naive to offer effective advice. What you need Oompa is a good shrink for yourself and some meds for your anxiety/depression. You should also seriously consider a separation.

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